Wrapping Up the Summer with High Five

Here in Alabama, it still FEELS like summer but we are getting ready to start back to school next week! Crazy, right?! It's got me looking back over some of the fun memories we've made this summer, so I printed a huge collage 8x10 print and cut it up to make this double page layout, showcasing some up these fun times.

The High Five kit was so perfect for adding lots of fun little embellishments and accents to this page. I loved putting it all together like a giant puzzle. 

Gift Shop Shenanigans

Hello!

It's Becky here again and I have one last project to share with you using the High Five Daily Diary and Classic kits. This kit was so fun and colorful. I think I've created more with this kit than I have with any kit for a while. There are still some of both of these kits available in the Noel Mignon shop. 

I kept the design fairly simple but the colors and patterns of the papers in the High Five kits keep the layout fun and interesting. 

I used the bold yellow striped patterned paper for the background but wanted to show a bit of the reverse side as well so I cut a strip lengthwise and used that as the border on the left side of my page. 

I used some journaling cards from the Daily Diary kit as well as that cute wordstrip card from Pretty Little Studio. Instead of cutting it into pieces I just put the whole thing on my page. 

I mixed up the alphas from both kits and added one of the Queen and Company blue lollies to the center of my "o" in Shop for a fun pop of color. 

To finish off the page I added some Pebbles diecuts and puffy stickers as well as some Elle's Studio blue puffy stickers and a piece of flair. 

Next week I will be back with a project using the beautiful new Weekend in Paris Daily Diary kit. Both of the August kits are available in the shop now. 

High Five Times Three

Hello again!

It's almost unbelievable to me that we are almost at the end of another month.

Summer has flown by so quickly.

I've had fun scrapping with our colorful and summery kit, High Five, this month.

I got both kits and have loved being able to mix things up on my projects.

Since our designer challenge this week is to create a layout that does NOT feature summer, I have this page to share:

Background for this photo: One of my girls had a gymnastics meet in Oklahoma City last winter and while we were there I took my two oldest to the NCAA gymnastics meet to see OU compete since we'd had such a great time doing so the year before. My husband stayed at the hotel with the little girls. After the meet was over we decided to just walk back to the hotel and in our journey came across this really cool colorful mural and had to stop and take a picture. Of course!

Because of the colorful nature of the photo I wanted to do something fun on my layout. I had both High Five kits so I decided to use the ribbon from both kits in a fun way. I love the layered look of fringe and ribbon so I went about creating this ribbon background by cutting 8 1/2" strips of ribbon and stapled them to 1" strips of white cardstock. I then layered them on a sheet of 8 1/2" x 11" cardstock alternating the pink and orange. I really like how it turned out!

I thought the little Bingo cards in the kit were so cute. I layered a couple of those and packaging from one of the embellishments to create a mat behind my photo. 

I added strip of washi tape to the top of the page and some cute cardstock butterflies to bring more color to my layout. I bent the butterfly wings to the center and stapled each to my page to give them more dimension. I added a few sequins here and there to the layout.  

I really liked the aqua sentiment stickers and that beautiful blue bling tape so I added those to my page as well. I LOVE this kit so much! It was so fun to create with. 

Because I've made some extra projects this month I would also like to quickly share those with you. These pages, however, have a very summery feel as the pics were taken on our trip to the beach earlier this month.

Thanks so much for stopping by the Noel Mignon blog today!

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summer fun

Good morning!

I am back and our computer and internet are fixed!

Hooray!

Today I have another project to share with you using a mix of the Classic and Daily Diary High Five kits. I have loved working with these kits so much this month that I have all of my assignments done plus extra!

I hope that you are enjoying your kits as well. We'd love to see what you are working on!

For this page I based my page design idea on the little 2x3" cards from the Daily Diary kit. I especially liked the colorful one with the roller skates, sunshine, rainbow and sunglasses. 

After adding my photo to the layout I added lots and lots of stickers and other embellishments. 

I added foam adhesive to the little cardstock pink sunglasses, a strip of blue rhinestone bling tape, a little flamingo, etc. 

I topped off my page by adding the title using a mix of stickers from the kits. 

Have a wonderful day! 

Pin'apple Salsa Love with the High Five Classic Kit

Hi all!  Nicole here today to share a sweet and spicy layout.  My son and I love pineapple salsa and our nearby grocery store makes a great one in their deli department.  He recently saw some when he was out with my husband shopping and picked some up for the two of us to share.  I have been making myself more aware to document these little moments and the tropical prints and colors were perfect.

I first started with the lined pattern paper and layered the pink Distress Ink from the kit with an ink dauber.  I then added a few ink splotches with a water color brush.  I then cut a large pineapple die cut with my Silhouette and backed it with pattern paper.

The title represents the way my son says pineapple.  It makes me laugh and I knew it needed to be included.  I altered one of the stickers with some pattern paper and the small American Crafts letter stickers to finish off my title.

I finished off with the pineapple die cut from the kit, a brad, and more stickers.

I hope you are all enjoying your summer and don't forget to record the little moments that might not seem to significant - even enjoying some pin'apple salsa with a loved one.

Happy Scrapping!

{Crazy Cousins} with the "High Five" Daily Diary Kit

Hello friends!  Happy Monday!  It's Meridy here and I have a 12x12 layout to share with you today.  I am using the "High Five" Daily Diary Kit and the paper pack add on for today's layout.   I am so happy to be using all of these bright summery colors this month, so I found some bright summery pictures to use on today's layout.

I started with the background papers and stitched them down to add some texture to the layout.  Next, I started layering the patterned paper behind the photos, building up to the "Be Happy" bingo card.

Next, I pulled a variety of different embellishments from the kit, including enamel dots (from an older Noel Mignon kit), the puffy sticker labels, some sequins, and Thickers to spell "100%".  I used these embellishments to create a couple of clusters, one on either side of the strip of photos.  I added a little journaling, and that wrapped up the layout!

Thanks for stopping by the blog today!  I would love to see what you made with your Noel Mignon kit this month on Instagram #NoelMignon.

Monochromatic Pocket Pages!

The design team was challenged this week to do a monochromatic layout... so I thought, "I'll do it for my pocket page album for the year. Easy peasy! These pics from the Lion King Jr. are already pretty monochromatic, so it'll be easy to do!" 

Um no. Wow. This is way more challenging than I thought it would be!! 

I love how Becky mentioned in our Facebook group about how she uses the ribbon from the kits, so I took that idea and ran with it. It was a lot harder to stick to a simple color scheme for me than I thought it would be! 

What have you done recently to challenge yourself? Did it work? 

(High Five Classic Kit used!) 

Splash!

Hey everyone! We're playing with color schemes this week and after seeing Nicole's monochromatic blue layout I decided to do the same thing myself! I had pool photos that I wanted to use so I thought they'd go perfect!

I started with the Pebbles 'Sunshiny Days' paper with those wonderful blue waves from the High Five Classic Kit and then set to decorating with elements from the High Five Daily Diary Kit. I love how well the classic and daily diary kits go together and I can grab things from both kits. Another option is to add the extra paper pack from the classic kit when ordering the daily diary kit which is what I did this month.

Be careful with that wave accent...I handled it a bit too much and accidentally ripped it. Nothing a little adhesive won't fix!! You also might notice I actually used the packaging from the Pretty Little Studio bingo cards behind one of my photos. I just loved all the typewriter wording on it!

I deviated from the blue color scheme just a bit and added those iridescent sequins from the kit which added just the right amount of texture to my page!

The Water's Edge with the High Five Classic Kit

Hey all!  I hope you are surviving the summer.  This week the design team is sharing either a monochromatic or rainbow color scheme.   For awhile I was having a hard time coming up with a page idea until we went to try out a local business that is supporting my son's marching band this year.  They named a drink after the marching bands field show - "The Water's Edge" and 50% of the proceeds go to the band.  I snapped a few cell phone pictures and as soon as I did I remembered the monochromatic challenge and knew I had a plan.

I pulled all the teal papers from the High Five Classic Kit and decided to use the large water print for my background.  I then cut from several other pattern papers the water droplets and my title.

I placed the two pictures and journaling among the title and water droplets and added the chipboard wave sticker and my subtitle underneath the main title.  Oh and yes I did spell "Island Splash" wrong.  I found out late nights plus TV watching do not make me a great speller and I didn't even notice until I had taken pictures.  The title is currently fixed ;)

Once the main middle section was done it seemed plain so I decided to add a few more of the teal prints to the top and bottom.  I also added the Pretty Little Studio phrases by the photo and topped them with a brad.

I finished my whole layout off with the stamped date (label from my stash) and rhinestones cut from the Maya Road trim.

I forgot how much I love monochromatic layouts and I need to do it more often.

Thanks for stopping by today!

"Make Art" with the High Five Kits!

 Our friend Becky is on a much needed R&R trip to the beach, so I'm sharing her layout for you this week! It's made with a combo of items from the High Five Classic Kit and Daily Diary kit.... and you should go get you one- there's only a couple left of each one! 

I love how she used this journaling card and embellished it with the brads! 

Aren't you loving this rhinestone tape strip? YES! Me too! 

Summer Band Camp with the High Five Classic Kit

Hey all!  I hope you are all enjoying a wonderful holiday with friends and family.  My little clan went for a hike this morning and we are now exhausted, but happy and gearing up to watch fireworks tonight. 

I'm not going to lie I totally forgot today was my day to post.  The holiday weekend has totally got me all confused and I'm just so glad I remembered and had my project finished early.

The start of summer for the last three years for my oldest has been band camp.  He heads to the mountains for the week and they learn music and give a concert to all the family when we pick them up at the end.  I snapped these from last years concert.

I pulled the light blue cardstock from the kit and decided to place large triangles of pattern paper on the diagonal.  I love the large journaling block and decided to use it to house my title.  Aren't those thickers in this kit amazing?!!  The little chipboard "summer" sticker was perfect to perch on top.

Right before I added the title to my layout I decided to add texture with some machine stitching and ran each line of text through a couple of times.  It ended up being a little on the messy side, but I went with it.  After all a week at band camp doesn't always end neat and tidy (Those teenager boys like to skip their showers).   I finished the title off with the sunglasses chipboard sticker - it is self adhesive, but I added a little glue dot for reinforcement.  

I finished off this rather simple layout with a few of the yellow sequins, another sticker I stamped the date on, and one of the Simple Stories brads.  

Again, huge apologies and I hope you are all having a wonderful holiday.  Thanks for stopping by.  Happy Scrapping!

{Flip Flop} Home Decor with the "Dive In" Classic Kit

It's OFFICIALLY summer! This week the design team is sharing our creations from a sketch, and I had a layout from a sketch all ready to share...and then yesterday I stopped by a crop that some friends of my were hosting to say hello.  When I got there, my friend Sandra was working on a super cute "SUMMER" flip flop sign.  When I saw her finished product, I knew I had to use her project as a "sketch" and recreate it using the papers and embellishments from the "Dive In" Classic Kit and the "High Five" Classic Kit.  This is what I came up with...  

I started by purchasing 3 pairs of flip flops from Dollar Tree, Walmart also has flip flops for 98 cents.  I bought two 5 gallon paint stir sticks from Walmart for 37 cents each to use to adhere the flip flops to.  

Next, I decided to cover one pair of flip flops in the Hawaiian floral paper from the "High Five" Classic Kit.  I traced the bottom of a flip flop and cut that out, and cut a small slit and circle where each of the 3 flip flops straps fit into the base of the shoe.  I glued the paper in place with Glossy Accents.

There were 2 paper rosettes in the "Dive In" kit, I decided to use those and create 4 more from various scrap of paper I had left over from the "Dive In" kit.  The strips of paper for the rosettes were 1 1/8" wide, 12" long, and I scored them every 1/4 inch.  On top of each rosette, I layered a 2" scalloped circle punch in white paper, and a 1.5" scalloped circle punch in pink paper.  I backed the Thicker letters to spell out S-U-M-M-E-R with the green paper, fussy cut around each letter, and adhered that to each of the rosettes.  

I cut apart the flamingo trim from the "Dive In" kit and placed one on each of the letter rosettes.  Then I pulled some of the ribbon from both the "Dive In" and "High Five" kits and adhered it to the back of each rosette, I left about 2 inches peeking out from each rosette.  

After I had everything embellished and ready to go,  I hot glued the paint stir stick to the back of the row of flip flops.  I placed one towards the top and the other towards the bottom of the row.  I used 2 because I wanted it to be fairly sturdy.  I am going to stand my sign up on my mantle, so I didn't put a hanger on it.  But if I had needed to, I could have added a ribbon to the stir stick to hang the sign.  Finally, I used a hot glue gun to adhere the rosettes to the flip flops.

Thank you for stopping by today and I hope you are having a great SUMMER!!!